cervice

cervice is a Latin form of cervix, meaning “neck, nape of the neck”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 189 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.107: … cibusque oculis duo fervida lumina flagrant atque uno mentum radianti sidere lucet; opstipum caput, at tereti cervice reflexum optutum in cauda maioris figere dicas.

Suetonius, Tiberius 68.3: incedebat ceruice rigida et obstipa, adducto fere uultu, plerumque tacitus, nullo aut rarissimo etiam cum proximis sermone eoqu …

All forms of cervix (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.